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Ibn al-Haytham’s most famous astronomical work is
Hayʾat al-ʿālam (“On the Configuration of the World”), in which he presents a nontechnical description of how the abstract mathematical models of Ptolemy’s
Almagest can be understood according to the natural philosophy of his time. While this early work implicitly accepts Ptolemy’s models, a later work,...